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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Scope of the study | |
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| Important contributions | |
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| Plan of the study | |
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| Some basic tools and concepts | |
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| Utility maximization | |
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| A health production function | |
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| Intertemporal models | |
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| Introducing risk | |
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| Some further comments on risk | |
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| More complex intertemporal models | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Evaluating health changes in a certain world | |
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| Two money measures of a change in health | |
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| On the properties of compensated money measures | |
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| An example: using CV and EV | |
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| Overall versus instantaneous money measures | |
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| A health production function approach | |
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| Using market data to evaluate changes in health | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Money measures in a risky world | |
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| Introducing money measures in a risky world | |
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| A WTP locus | |
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| Evaluating changes in mortality, and the value of a statistical life | |
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| Endogenous risks and altruism | |
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| Changes in wealth and the value of health | |
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| Intertemporal models | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Evaluating health risks: practical methodologies | |
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| The contingent valuation method | |
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| Closed-ended techniques | |
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| A useful interpretation of WTP measures | |
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| CVM studies of health risks | |
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| The human capital approach | |
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| Market-based estimation methods | |
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| The value of a statistical life | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Contingent valuation studies of health care | |
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| Empirical studies of the WTP for health care: a brief review | |
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| A study of high blood pressure | |
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| The results | |
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| Useful formulae for the computation of the mean WTP | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Aggregation | |
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| The social welfare function | |
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| Project evaluations | |
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| Pragmatic views on the aggregation problem | |
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| An illustration: how to assess a treatment | |
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| Altruism | |
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| Altruism in cost-benefit analysis | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Further evaluation issues in a risky world | |
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| The value of information | |
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| A health production function model | |
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| Using the model to assess health changes | |
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| On the value of changes in life expectancy | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Concluding remarks on related approaches | |
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| Qalys and hyes | |
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| Risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs | |
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| Cost-effectiveness analysis | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |